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Michael Pollan Quotes

Agriculture changes the landscape more than anything else we do. It alters the composition of species. We don't realize it when we sit down to eat, but that is our most profound engagement with the rest of nature.

Michael Pollan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: american

Topics

Nature Rest Landscape Agriculture

There's a short chain between field and fork, and the shorter that chain is - the fresher, the more transparent that system is - the less chance there is of anything from bio-terrorism to pathogenicity to spoilage.

Joel Salatin

Chance Short More Anything System

I grew up in Florida, so every now and then, we'd have a garter snake in the lawn. But I'm not super okay with them.

Maulik Pancholy

Snake Now Okay Now And Then Florida

It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I wasn't sure I would be able to play with them.

Matthew Modine

Son Baseball Professional Play Bench

I've done 'Yo Gabba Gabba!' I've done... oh, it's not called 'Rapunzel' anymore. 'Tangled', that's it. Those are both huge.

Jeffrey Tambor

Done Tangled Anymore Those Oh Both

Apple took the edge off the word 'computer.'

Steve Jobs

Apple Edge Off Computer Word Took

Personally, I have struggled with anxiety in my history, so I think maybe anxiety or worrying about the future came naturally.

Tony Hale

Future History Think Anxiety I Think

'Cunnamulla' is a beautifully bleak portrait of a lonely town in which people are leading lives of sort of quiet desperation.

Louis Theroux

People Lonely Portrait Quiet Leading

I always see other people as predecessors and admire them.

Judd Apatow

People Admire Always See Other Them

I'm a huge Marvel Comics fan, and I'm a huge 'Wolverine' fan, I like the 'X-Men' comic book.

Jason David Frank

Book Like Fan Comic Book Marvel

I always tell younger filmmakers, it's not just about the acting or the art itself. It's about how big of an audience watches your film.

Donnie Yen

Art Watches Acting Audience Tell

I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.

Deborah Cox

Work People Doing Moments Seeing

I don't read the art mags. I read the newspapers.

Cornelia Parker

Art Read Newspapers